Tag: anasazi, anasazi-foundation, healing, mother-earth, native-american, native-american-wisdom, nature, wisdom

Whether we walk among our people or alone among the hills, happiness in life’s walking depends on how we feel about others in our hearts.

Unfortunately, modern man has become so focused on harnessing nature’s resources that he has forgotten how to learn from them. If you let them, however, the elements of nature will teach you as they have taught me.

There is a power in nature that man has ignored. And the result has been heartache and pain.

I have learned that the point of life’s walk is not where or how far I move my feet but how I am moved in my heart.

There is much to be learned from the world around us—far more than we normally comprehend. The Ancient Ones knew this well—most particularly the wise teachers among them—those who, in the Navajo tongue, were called “Anasazi.

Would it surprise you to hear that man’s unhappiness is due in large measure to the way he is seeking after happiness? You know this already from your own life. For when you have been unhappy, you have been unhappy with others—with your father or mother, your sister or brother, your spouse, your son, your daughter. If unhappiness is with others, wouldn’t it stand to reason that happiness must be with others as well?

We have found that no modern prescriptions heal the human heart so fully or so well as the prescription of the Ancient Ones. “To the hills,” they would say. To which we would add, “To the trees, the valleys, and the streams, as well.” For there is a power in nature that man has ignored. And the result has been heartache and pain.

Would it surprise you to hear that man’s unhappiness is due in large measure to the way he is seeking after happiness?

The success of my journey depended on whether my heart walked forward—toward my people—instead of backward, away from them.

Mother Earth reintroduced me to my people.

I have learned that the point of life’s walk is not where or how far I move my feet but how I am moved in my heart. If I walk far but am angry toward others as I journey, I walk nowhere. If I conquer mountains but hold grudges against others as I climb, I conquer nothing. If I see much but regard others as enemies, I see no one.

No man is as wise as Mother Earth. She has witnessed every human day, every human struggle, every human pain, and every human joy. For maladies of both body and spirit, the wise ones of old pointed man to the hills. For man too is of the dust and Mother Earth stands ready to nurture and heal her children.